Improvement in the manufacture of papier-mache articles



J. W. BRYANT. Manufacture of Papier-Maohe' Articles.

No. 218,364. Patented Aug. 12,1879.

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.N. PETERS. PHOITO-LIIHOGRAFHEFL WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. BRYANT, OF LA PORTE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPlER-MACHli ARTICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,364, dated August12, 1879; application filed January 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN W. BRYANT, of the city and county of La Porte,and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in theManufacture of Papier- Mach Articles,-of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to the use of wire, iron, or any flexible rods inobtaining any irregular or desired form in the manufacture of all kindsof useful and ornamental articles in papier-mach.

H eretofore the form 'of articles manufactured in papier-mach has beenobtained (as far as I am aware) in the following manner: first, sheetsof paper pasted together over variously-shaped cores and dried, afterwhich the cores are used again; second, paper-pulp pressed into shapebetween dies or molds;

third, by building the papier-mach around wooden cores.

The first two methods are objectionable, as they require the use ofcores, molds, or dies, and limit the manufacturing to a very few kindsof articles.

The object of my invention is to obtain easily and at small expense theform or shape of any desired article in papier-mach Without the use ofdies, molds, or wooden cores.

The invention consists in making a framework of wire, iron, or anyflexible rods in the general shape or form of the article desired to bemanufactured, around which the papiermach composition is built ormolded. The skeleton-frame of wire or rods assists in getting the formof the article desired to be manufactured, and holds it in shape whiledrying,

JOHN W. BRYANT.

Witnesses H. O. SHANNON, S. L. TRIPPE.

